Section 22-15B-1 - Statewide educational technology opportunity program; findings and purpose.

NM Stat § 22-15B-1 (2019) (N/A)

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A. The legislature finds that:

(1) local school districts need increased access to information technologies, extensive professional development and sustained network support to use technology effectively;

(2) the technological needs of New Mexico's individual school children and classrooms are best defined by the teachers and principals who work with them on a day-to-day basis;

(3) New Mexico is fortunate to have high technology laboratories and corporations that have programs to supply low-cost, state-of-the-art central processing units for use in New Mexico classrooms; and

(4) there are large nonprofit programs in place to build and rehabilitate computers for New Mexico classrooms using a combination of donated, surplus and purchased equipment.

B. The purpose of this act is to establish a statewide educational technology opportunity program for New Mexico's teachers and students by creating a partnership between private industry, state government and local school districts that will build, distribute and install low-cost, network-ready computers in New Mexico classrooms over the next three years.

History: Laws 1999, ch. 234, § 1.

Compiler's notes. — The phrase "this act", referred to in Subsection B, means Laws 1999, ch. 234, which enacted 22-15B-1 and 22-15B-2 NMSA 1978.

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